There’s a new Disney blog in town,  Disney FanCast! . Like me you might be like, so what? And you’re right after all blogs are going up everyday. But this blog opened with Aladdin making me curious if there’s something that I haven”t seen before. Well check out this

That LOOK

The guys behind the Tiara Talk Show talked with the lead voice actors of Aladdin, Scott Wienger, Linda Larkin and Jonathan Freeman about how they ended up being the voice of popular Disney characters for almost 2 decades, how they got the part,  why they love their work and working for Disney in general. There’s some inside talk  about things like  the Music behind the Magic 4 CD box that contains demo recordings for songs that didn’t make into the final film, the inside joke of Scott Weinger dressing up as Aladdin in that Full House 2 part episode when the family went on holiday to Walt Disney World. And other stuff like the musical stage show in Disney California adventures.

Howard Ashaman’s sister, Sarah Ashman Gillespie s recently started a blog devoted to her brother the amazing lyricist, composer, producer, writer and creative genius who past away far to early now almost 21 years ago to the day. With this blog she recalls her childhood and talks with the many people Howard worked with and became friends like some of the big names at the Disney animation studio in California. One of them John Musker co-director/co-writer/co-producer  of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin anwsers 10 questions about working with Howard Ashman. So far he is on the 3th question. The second one, counting down from 10 it’s actually the 8th, he’s been asked.

“This is a tricky one. How different would Aladdin have turned out had Howard lived? Did Howard ever write a screenplay or did Linda Woolverton write the original draft?” 

From

Flying carpet-
Average speed:98250mph
Max Speed:250921mph
First journey:
(Let’s just say) Riyadh (although it would probably have been a much further journey especially since the original story of Aladdin has him as a southern Chinese man) to Giza (pyramids): 1022 miles taking 51 seconds equaling ~7214mph
Second:
Great Pyramid to Sphinx: .373 miles taking 2 seconds equaling ~671.40671mph
Third:
Giza to Athens (Parthenon):697 miles taking 10 seconds (including horse detour) equaling ~250921mph

Artist Petite Tiaras made a series of fake could-be covers of the Disney princes on the cover of (men’s) magzine’s like Men’s fitness and Time Magazine.

via geekologie.com

Over at the Blu Ray forum someone posted a picture of the Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition insert. Just when I was sure Disney did everything to ignore Aladdin a miracle happened. Disney hasn’t forgotten about us. Rumors said that the big A was nicked from the Diamond series after disappointing sales of the Platinum edition. Now keep in mind that spring 2013 is still far away so the suits at Disney still could change their minds. I’m a disappointed that the film doesn’t get a 20th anniversary release instead. Since the Diamond edition titles are lacking in bonus features compared to their Platinum ancestors which doesn’t sound good for Aladdin. I for one would’ve like to know more about the earlier Howard Ashman draft.

Listen… just listen

It´s been a Christmas tradition at our house to hang my Aladdin Christmas ornaments in the tree along with the regular lights and ornaments. It’s not an old tradition mind you, I collected a bunch a few years ago. I blogged about them in the past so I’m not going to list my collection here again. Anyway after not expending my collection for 2 years it’s was high time to do something about it. So after taking down and putting away the tree I started looking around eBay for ornaments with a reasonable price incl shipping. Knowing that the shipping might get high, wanting near mint boxed hangers. I hoped to find a seller that a bunch in stock and wiling to combine shipping. It didn’t really matter to me what character or it where duplicates of the same ornament.

Eventually I bought four ornaments for a total of $84 incl shipping still a bit pricey but all in MINT condition with box.
Genie in his regular blue form

Genie with caroling heads

Genie in his vacation outfit with suitcases and Goofy cap

And Abu with lamp

It’s been ages since I posted something here. It’s not that I lost interest in the blog or Aladdin, I do though I admit it’s less that say 2-3 years ago. The thing is I hardly come across anything news worthy. Well I got something for you today on the last day of 2011. Browsing YouTube I stumbled upon two ladies who made a habit out of reinacting Disney songs in live action. The result is fun and looks great it’s obivous they took their time to plan put the songs and not burst into random sillyness.

Their A Friend Like Me is also worth a watch though I personally didn’t like it that much.

Somebody e-mailed me asking where the full score on Youtube was gone. Since I wrote about that sometime ago I assume Youtube took it offline. Lucky I got hold of the score in mp3 format a couple of years ago. When attaching it on an e-mail took forever I decided to just put it up here for everyone to enjoy.

Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Going retro on The Lion King, which is now back in 3D both the cinema’s and on Blu-Ray, watching old Disney animated movie tie-in’s fastfood chains at YouTube. BTW, no Aladdin is not listed to get a 3D make-over in the near future. From what I heard a bunch of Pixar movies and The Little Mermaid are. Glad too because I don’t believe 3D adds that much except higher price tickets and eye strain.

I stumbled upon a Burger King promo TV spot with some orginal animation in it. It’s low budget of course and TV spot itself is old school but that’s what I like about it.

Good news for anyone who missed the Aladdin musical in Seatlle last July. In 2012 it’s moving to Utah to have a long run from June to October 3 nights in the week in the Tuacahn theater. Also the press release mentioned a second city where the show will do a run in 2012. More details will no doubt follow as 2012 draws closer.

Also there are an accident with the flying carpet at the Musical Spectacular show in Disneyland California. Apperantly the carpet flipped over leaving the actors who played Aladdin and Jasmine hanging in mid air on their safety harnass. In the TV show Al & Co fell of Carpet without a safety line to break their fall I always wondered why they never broke anything or worse.

The Aladdin Musical Blog interviewed Sean G. Griffin this week about his role as Sultan in the Aladdin Musical that ran last July. Sean talks also about his career and how the got the role of Sultan of Agrabah and how different it was from the animated version.